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“All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn’t mean giving in. It didn’t mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.” (The Forest of Enchantments Quotes)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“And finally, I bless my daughters, who are yet unborn. I pray that, if life tests them—as sooner or later life is bound to do—they’ll be able to stand steadfast and think carefully, using their hearts as well as their heads, understanding when they need to compromise, and knowing when they must not.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“And this is one of the final things I learn about love: it’s found in its purest form, on this imperfect earth, between mothers and young children, because there’s nothing they want except to make each other happy.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Anger and self-pity are useless emotions, so I push them away and speak calmly, even though my heart is breaking all over again.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“But where love and sorrow bind people together, goodbyes are not so easily said. We were about to discover that.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we’re willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they want, not what we want for them.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“He told me that visions of all he needed to write came to him at the oddest moments, forcing him to abandon other activities and write them down.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“How innocent we’d been, thinking that if only we willed something hard enough, it would come true.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“I couldn’t control what was done to me. But my response to it was in my control.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“I don’t agree with you that the private life must be sacrificed for the public one. And that is the final advice that I leave for my children: my dearest boys, balance duty with love. Trust me, it can be done.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“I learned a new fact about love that day: it could kill. Sometimes it could kill instantaneously.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“I listened mesmerized, visualizing the goddess with her divine mate, wondering if it was possible for humans to replicate this perfect relationship. Would I be blessed with such a love in my life?”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“If you want to stand up against wrongdoing, if you want to bring about change, do it in a way that doesn’t bruise a man’s pride. You’ll have a better chance of success.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“It didn’t drain me as I thought it might. Instead, it invigorated me. Such was love’s magic—the giver gained more than the receiver.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“It’s hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines. They’re as difficult to disentangle as love and sorrow.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Love was full of contradictions. Sometimes the person you loved weakened you and sometimes he or she made you a stronger person.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Mostly their troubles were minor ones, for they followed a healthy lifestyle, waking at sunrise to bathe in the river, then spending long hours in study or prayer, followed by daily chores, simple meals, storytelling”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Motherhood taught me something new about love. It was the one relationship where you gave everything you had and then wished you had more to give.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Such is the ancient law of the universe. Of karma and its fruit. The idea of motive is irrelevant to it.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“Such rulers were adored by the citizens they protected, but often their families had to bear the brunt of sacrifice.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“That’s how love stops us when it might be healthier to speak out, to not let frustration and rage build up until it explodes.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“The herbs and chants weren’t working because of my anger towards Ram. In some dark part of my soul, I wanted him to suffer.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“The laws of karma were complicated, and ultimately, one never escaped them.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“This incident taught me that the more love we distribute, the more it grows, coming back to us from unexpected sources. And its corollary: when we demand love, believing it to be our right, it shrivels, leaving only resentment behind.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“To return to the peaceful forest, it’s healing green canopies. To return to the ashram community, where everyone trusts and accepts me.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
“You aren’t some weak-willed wench. You can control your emotions. Remember all that you’ve survived. Behave like the queen you are. No one can take your dignity away from you. You lose it only by your own actions.”
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Forest of Enchantments
